It has been quite a long time that I have not posted a site concerning urban farming. This very modest project (on a 25 sqm surface), is an example of how little it takes to launch a sustainable TINY climate-conscious enterprise.
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There was a Creative Sync yesterday. I joined in for the first time in 6 weeks. It looked so familiar, the way the screen showed the usual six members, all black except for me, yet my image stuck right at the center of the screen, as if I were the head of the gang! No one but me seems to be shocked by the implication. What stopped me from making a remark? My partners are much more mature than I with DEI-related matters. Otherwise, how could they not be shattered by what is happening right now with the Trump agenda? And if they are, where do they find the strength to keep a cool head? A warm heart? Their dignified demeanor resembles that of the Palestinian doctors, or poets we see often on Democracy Now or Mediapart, who carry the wholeness of their people on their shoulders.
For sure, Al Green was not waxing poetic when he interrupted Trump the other day. Although he was right to protest. No one else did or would have done it for him … This morning, when I see that he may be censured for his action, and that his democratic colleagues are not unanimous against this condemnation, I wonder: how far apart are our congress members from their constituents? How much representation is there left in our representatives? Or does Al Green’s Blackness repeat the story of a helplessly racist America where ‘decorum’ is still a cover for hypocrisy? And why doesn’t decorum apply to Donald Trump? So many inconsistencies which point to a very hollow and irrelevant political system where politics is a pretext and a latent war of faiths against faiths, which is about to explode, is the real subject. Trump is entertaining his audience with pretend institutional reforms at the same time he pushes all sorts of christian tropes of domination, empire, destiny which are the agenda of his donors.
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Although I did not watch the speech to the joint session of Congress, I believe climate change per se was not a topic touched on by Trump, except to reiterate the ‘Drill Baby Drill’ and related campaign slogans.
At this very moment, most world leaders are pocketing, for themselves, and taking in, on behalf of their country, huge sums of money from the oil, coal and related industries. At the same time, we, the consumers, are facing just as huge increases of our energy bills, to the point where many of us must choose between paying for food, or school, or healthcare, or … energy. At the same time, although science is proving every day that climate change is, in big part, driven by the use of fossil energy, excractivist corporations receive both major tax cuts to drill-baby-drill and tax incentives to explore the oceans and the untouched land of our National Parks.
The maga cohort knows we know. The maga cohort is scared of the issue of climate change. That is why Trump does not mention it in his speeches. Trump has many issues with climate change: One – it is true, the climate is changing. Two: the climate is changing because of adverse environmental policies. Three: environmental policies are adverse because the elected official in charge of environmental policies are picked and payed by the extractivist multinational industries themselves: oil, gas, mineral and affiliates. Four: extractivist multinational industries can corrupt elected officials with the money of oil and gas because in American politics, money is gold and gold speaks louder than words. But now, the people know. More and more of us, around the world, are profoundly affected by hurricanes, flood, fires or droughts and we know why.
There is no denying. All there is, though, is silence.
Why is there silence? Silence around climate change?
There is silence because big oil, big gas, all their political supporters are scared.
Because the head honcho, the president of the United States is scared.
If he was ready to remedy climate challenges, would he not boast about it?
He may have the backing of the industry but he does not have that of the majority of the people. He knows it. Any reality check would shame him. Where he cannot convince, he represses
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Rather ridiculous exercise in convincing the convinced!
But I so much want to update TINYisPOWERFUL and integrate the climate in its mission that I am banging my head on the walls of the room! For naught!